Christian Social Party of Austria

The Christian Social Party (CS) was a conservative and nationalist political party that existed in Austria from 1891 to 1934. The party had the goal of keeping Catholic Austria-Hungary independent from the Protestant German Empire, and the party's supporters followed political Catholicism and subscribed to anti-Semitism, populism, and corporatism. The Christian Social Party merged into the Fatherland Front (VF) in 1934, and it is considered to be a predecessor to the Austrian People's Party.